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Gridiron Giant [16076]
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Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 5:45 PM
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Pretty certain I'm being eaten alive by chiggers.
I heard to take a hot shower, soap and scrub. Y'all got any other suggestions.
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Paw Master [17528]
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Jul 8, 2025, 5:53 PM
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Hydrocortisone cream 1% to the bites and Claritin may help.
They are bad news.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 5:54 PM
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Chiggers, harvest mites, red bugs... yes I've learned the hard way. Stay on the trails. When I was in my 20's I thought I would be clever and hike a big patch of woods by completely going off the trails and making my own way. I was wearing shorts and tube socks. 3 hours later i pulled the socks off and found hundreds of tiny tiny mites crawling all over my shins and ankles and the next 2 weeks were the itchiest days of my life.
Hot water is the best thing. Anything other than itching. Be warned, you will wake up in the middle of the night and feel so itchy you'll want to take a cheese grater to your legs. Don't itch! Jump in a hot shower.
Godspeed
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All-American [592]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:37 PM
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Chiggers, harvest mites, red bugs... yes I've learned the hard way. Stay on the trails. When I was in my 20's I thought I would be clever and hike a big patch of woods by completely going off the trails and making my own way. I was wearing shorts and tube socks. 3 hours later i pulled the socks off and found hundreds of tiny tiny mites crawling all over my shins and ankles and the next 2 weeks were the itchiest days of my life.
Hot water is the best thing. Anything other than itching. Be warned, you will wake up in the middle of the night and feel so itchy you'll want to take a cheese grater to your legs. Don't itch! Jump in a hot shower.
Godspeed
Cannot reiterate enough your advice to resist scratching. I have dealt with them before and the more you scratch, the worse they itch. It can be 3 weeks post any redness, swelling or itchy feeling,……..and if you scratch that spot one time the infected site will return with a vengeance. Just leave it alone !!!
But you can’t call them chiggers anymore. The correct term is chegro.  ">
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Tiger Cub [13]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:12 PM
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I know what you are saying but it not funny it just racist,it's how you really feel about another human being you can't believe in GOD how can u love GOD who u have not seen and not love your brother who you see everyday sad
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Orange Phenom [14276]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:41 PM
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When I hear a bald joke (funny or not) I just laugh and say I am not bald, I shave my head. Point is one has to choose to be offended….
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 9, 2025, 7:16 PM
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So brave.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 5:55 PM
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Put dab of fingernail polish on each bite to suffocate them little cannibals.
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Paw Master [17528]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 5:56 PM
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Doesn’t do a thing. The chigger is long gone.
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Game Changer [1923]
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:24 PM
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I’ve used fingernail polish for years and works each and every time.
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Hall of Famer [8323]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 9:45 PM
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100% agree with this method. After each shower or bath. Those little guys are embedded.
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Head Coach [976]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 11:43 PM
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Nail polish does work. A bit of advice though...use clear. Nothing like going to the ER and your thigh and "package area" is dotted with pink and red nail polish...at least it wasn't blue or yellow!
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Orange Elite [5388]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:01 PM
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All the time. Nothing you can do other than some itch cream
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:03 PM
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lighter fluid, then a shower
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:04 PM
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oh, and wash all of your clothes, bedding, etc... or you will keep getting them.
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Game Changer [1922]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:06 PM
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As a kid, we always put finger nail polish on the top of them… probably doesn’t work but worth a google.
We also poured gasoline over yellow jackets nests… worked like a charm.
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Playmaker [398]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:26 PM
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Fingernail polish.
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Paw Master [16158]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:39 PM
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Clear, well i guess pink, not that there is anything wrong with that!
Never felt that helped me. They seemed to last longer.
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Paw Master [16321]
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Take an antihistamine
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:30 PM
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And this is key, same for poison oak or ivy..
Get in the shower, and turn the water up in the affected area as hot as you can stand it.
It’ll feel bad at first, then feel really amazing actually, then keep that hot water cranking..
You’ll get hours of relief from 5-10mins of hot hot water.
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All-TigerNet [5940]
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Re: Take an antihistamine
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:00 PM
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This has been the best thing for me when I get into some chiggers. Steady stream of Benadryl.
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CU Guru [1512]
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No not the same as poison ivy. That is a thick grease on your skin. Take some Dawn in the shower and scrub the grease off. If you do that quickly, you won’t itch.
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Paw Master [16158]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:41 PM
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Basically they suck! Get shower, then some menthol alcohol rub, then cortisone, then 2 shots of bourbon - not on the bites. You will feel better.
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Top TigerNet [32262]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:45 PM
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Clear fingernail polish will absolutely do the trick as said above. Used it many times.
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Team Captain [457]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:45 PM
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My mom used Turpentine when I was a kid in the 80's. Worked likes champ!
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:47 PM
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She is correct also. Hard to find turpentine in some areas though.
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Legend [6712]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:50 PM
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Take Vicks Vapor Rub and add some salt. Mix well and apply to bites. Will be some better in the morning then do this another 2 nights.
Next time in the woods and tall grass spray down with bug spray.
Good Luck
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All-Pro [746]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:58 PM
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Treat your clothes with permethrin before hiking.
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Clemson Sports Icon [55092]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:51 PM
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Hot tub/jacuzzi or hot shower or bath for as long as you can and then put Silvadene Cream and Hydrocortisone cream on it.
Calahist lotion with cotton swab afterwards to dry the itch up.
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Associate AD [1072]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 6:53 PM
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Most certainly. Zanfel works. Can get it at any CVS, etc. Works for all that itches.
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Paw Warrior [4871]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:09 PM
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Have someone flay you until all your skin is gone. This method is less painful and bothersome.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:12 PM
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bug spray on my boots and pant legs, never have a problem
one fella told me to soak in a bath with some clorox
i dont think it help his chigger bites but he was squeeky clean
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:15 PM
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Clorox or Fingernail polish remover will both dry these suckers up if you can stand the burning/itching until it drys!
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Paw Master [16158]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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We always used to put Sevin Dust in an old sock, then pat down your boots and lower legs before hunting or tromping the woods. It always worked for chiggers and ticks. I should know becausevI was a Chig Magnet back in the day!
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ONly 1 point. Apparently, Tnetters are intimidated by a Chig Magnet....***
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:01 PM
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Paw Master [16158]
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Re: ONly 1 point. Apparently, Tnetters are intimidated by a Chig Magnet....***
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Jul 8, 2025, 10:44 PM
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At least someone caught that!
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Dynasty Maker [3375]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:13 PM
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Have forgot about chiggers for years. This post brought back bad memories.
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Ultimate Tiger [38707]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:16 PM
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Get you some Brown’s Linament, good for Man or beast !
Go Tigers!
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:19 PM
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make you forget about the chiggers lol
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CU Medallion [19111]
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In Scouts, they told us to paint them with nail polish to suffocate them, turns
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:26 PM
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out it was just an Old Wives tale...but it did seem to work...might have been the fact you couldn't scratch them again after they were painted
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Orange Immortal [62359]
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You cant pick blackberries without getting chiggers....Course, there can't be
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:32 PM
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many on here who picked'em.....
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All-In [11072]
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just got to doctor and get prescription grade nerve medicine
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Jul 8, 2025, 7:39 PM
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and use the home remedies on the side
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Game Changer [1644]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:08 PM
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Used to get them in early deer hunting season. Anywhere your clothes are tight, they move in. The fingernail polish worked for me, but I never used pink. Stuck with clear, tried to stay manly.
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Valley Legend [12428]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:17 PM
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Whiskey. And lot of it. Surprised that hasn't been mentioned.
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Hall of Famer [8851]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:32 PM
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Internal or external?
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Hall of Famer [8851]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:22 PM
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Get a bottle of witch hazel, it is a long time red bug cure.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:26 PM
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Every remedy mentioned here works ………. for about 3 hours and then you are back where you started. It takes about 2 weeks for them to clear up. I have never been to the doctor for them but suppose cortisone shots will help some.
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Head Coach [965]
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 8:31 PM
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Anbesol toothache gel stops the itch.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 9:06 PM
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Dealt with chigger bites for years. Every deer hunting season. Had to finally quit deer hunting until after the first frost. The only thing that got me cleared up was to go to doctor and get prednisone prescription.
I recently got ate up with them in Feb. Was surprised they were active in Feb. Did not get prednisone. Doctor prescribed Triamcinolone Acetonide cream, 1%. You can also get the ointment, but I prefer the cream as it does not stain clothes. Took a full three weeks of applying the cream 3 to 4 times daily. It did help itching. I also took zyrtec 10mg tab once daily. Can't take more than 1 tab daily. I am very allergic to insect bites, so I Don't heal quickly.
Hate them #### chiggers.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 10:15 PM
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They will dance a jig every night between 2-3 am and you’ll wanna claw your legs. Hot shower helps
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 8, 2025, 11:48 PM
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Try taking a hot bath with apple cider vinegar.
Good luck.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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DON’t SCRATCH! Just makes it last longer.
Best advice is use a lot of 30-40% DEET spray when going into the areas they inhabit in the summer. It’s too late for this time but it will keep it from happening again. I am in the woods and fields a lot and this stuff works.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Chiggers, sand fleas, no-see-ums , red bugs .... Same thing..they are crazy itchy little S.O.B's....
Use old school remedies.. white cider vinegar, Red Man chewing tobacco, baking soda , hydrogen peroxide.. also makes for good chemistry experiment! I'm not responsible for your experiment!
Go Tigers!!💪💪
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 9, 2025, 9:54 AM
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The parasite digs under the skin and dies. It doesn't "spread", the damage is already done. The redness and puffy skin around the burrow site is an inflammatory response. Topical steroids for limited number of bites, oral steroids can be used if extensive but probably not necessary as this will run its course regardless.
I am a physician, if that matters. I deal with this all the time.
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What is the typical onset for bites to be noticed (become itchy)
Jul 9, 2025, 2:59 PM
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I've read up to 3 days.
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When I first got married, my wife wanted pine straw for her flower beds...
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Jul 9, 2025, 10:04 AM
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...in September. We didn't have money to waste on bales so I got my rake and went into the woods....
worst case ever.
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Gridiron Giant [16076]
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That sounds brutal.
Jul 9, 2025, 2:47 PM
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yikes!
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 9, 2025, 3:12 PM
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My grandmother used Yeager’s Liniment for joint pain and to repel ticks and chiggers (jiggers) while blackberry picking. It’s the camphor that the little buggers can’t tolerate. Rub it on them and they will pull out and leave. Smells to high heaven. I used it liberally during my SCHD surveying days.
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
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Jul 9, 2025, 4:20 PM
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I use the ole yellow jacket bite trick. Works for me. Wet cigarette tobacco or chewing tobacco that you wet and apply to each bite
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Re: Y'all ever dealt with Chiggers?
Jul 10, 2025, 5:45 AM
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Try taking a bath with some some bleach in it.
Good luck
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